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upon accents, denying their antiquity and fupported by nu- 

 merous arguments and quotations. About fix years afterwards 

 Mr. Fofter's celebrated work appeared, flriving to prove that 

 they were only marks of intonation, and in 1764 was publifhed 

 the Accentus Redivivi of Mr. Primatt, afferting their antiquity, 

 and admitting that they do afFed metrical quantity, in fo much, 

 according to his opinion, as to be dellruaive of it. 



From this laft opinion it neceffarily followed, in his opinion, 

 and that of many others, that however it may be right to ufe 

 them in profe, they are not calculated to regulate the recitation 

 of verfc ; and hence the common didum which is fo often heard 

 from the fons of Oxford and Cambridge, that we are to read by 

 accent in profe and by quantity in verfe. 



About ten years fince a fmall work appeared, but of great 

 erudition, fuppofed, and now I believe not denied, to be written 

 by a learned prelate of the EngUfh church, entitled De Rhythmo 

 Grscorum; and at a much later period, a Treatife on the Profo- 

 dies of the Greek and Latin Languages, afcribed to another ce- 

 lebrated prelate on the Englifh bench, and fraught with abun- 

 dant learning, and intimate knowledge of Greek literature. In 

 the firft work I would only at prefent refer the reader to the fifth 

 chapter, where the author oppugns the opinion aliam # infoluta 

 oratione fcanftonem rhythmicam, aliam In metris, in oppofition to 



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